अध्यापक

Borrowed from Sanskrit अध्यापक (adhyāpaka).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /əd̪ʱ.jɑː.pək/,

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अध्यापक • (adhyāpak) m (feminine अध्यापिका, Urdu spelling ادھیاپک)

1. teacher

   Synonyms: उस्ताद (ustād), आचार्य (ācārya), शिक्षक (śikṣak), गुरु (guru)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “अध्यापक”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “अध्यापक”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

• अद्यापक (adyāpaka)

अधि- (adhi-) +‎ आपक (āpaka).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐdʱ.jɑː.pɐ.kɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐd̪ʱˈjɑː.pɐ.kɐ/

अध्यापक • (adhyāpaka) stem, m

1. teacher, professor

   Synonyms: आचार्य (ācārya), गुरु (guru), शिक्षक (śikṣaka)

   अहं अध्यापकः अस्मि। ― ahaṃ adhyāpakaḥ asmi. ― I am a teacher.

   अध्यापकः इदानीम् आगमिष्यति। ― adhyāpakaḥ idānīm āgamiṣyati. ― The teacher will come now.

   गणितस्य अध्यापकः अस्ति वा पश्यतु। ― gaṇitasya adhyāpakaḥ asti vā paśyatu. ― See if the maths teacher is there.

2. coach, trainer, instructor
3. preceptor, guru

   Synonyms: आचार्य (ācārya), गुरु (guru)

• Monier Williams (1899) “अध्यापक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 22/3.